Re: DUMP CAPTCHAS

How about another captcha to make sure a person is asking for a different captcha and if he/she requests another captcha for the captcha making sure that a person is requesting a captcha for the captcha request?

why bother?

admittedly the press release itself is annoyingly non-specific, but that's no excuse for just republishing it verbatim merely wrapped with a few excerpts from puppet's about us page. in the future just link to the press release and the company's wikipedia page.

Re: why the paranoia?

Paranoia? Perhaps I was reading a different article. the one I read was illustrating that Seagate (a major disk drive manufacturer) has released a NAS optimized hard drive with largely the same specs as a product made by WD (aka Western Digital, another major hard drive manufacturer). then it contained a mention that WD may soon need to release new drives to compete with the larger sizes of Seagate's product. I'm not certain on this, but it seems to me that comparing the specs of two similar products hardly qualifies as paranoia (a thought process heavily influenced by fear or anxiety).

i've been to a bunch of marxist countries, and they are nowhere as bad as the capitalist ones. the reason why spin doctors can make marxists look bad is because most people dont understand them, so the spin doctors can say whatever they want and most people wont be able to verify the information.

if you want to remain private, you've got to boycott all western based technology. this includes windows, m$ office, skype, adobe, java, google, aol, etc. i say western based technology, because western countries like europe, australia, and canada share information with each other. so you are hardly hiding from anyone if you are using an australian service. and most of all, you got to stop using iphones, and android phones. your best bet is a huawei, or zte. as far as operating systems go, i believe the kylin will be the most secure.

I must have missed the part where the article claimed the pictured aircraft is a copy of the F-15. I did however notice the photo of the Chinese F-15 taking off from one of their new aircraft carriers. I suspect you're confused by the name, but believe it or not, the chinese can name their planes whatever they please. It also seems to me that a 40-year old aircraft that requires 4000+ ft of runway is not the ideal starting point for a modern naval aircraft.

Re: I really get tired of this bemoaning 'evolution instead of revolution'

Except APL hasn't done anything of note for the past 3-5 years. Name one thing they added that no other had within the past 5-10 years?

There's like two things that I can think of that wasn't available before. A voice assistant isn't one of them, as many people believe -- they just took an application on their own store, improved it slightly, integrated into the system. Meanwhile, Android has widgets (homescreen and lockscreen), expandable notifications (so you don't actually have to go into an application to respond to a message, for example), a system to make sure every component (i.e. mapping, text messaging, homescreen) can be seamlessly replaced by downloading an app on the Play Store.

Mistake in article - please correct

"Compare that to the US, where BlackBerry is now down to 0.9 per cent of the smartphone OS market, and Windows Phone declined year on year, from 9.7 per cent to 5.8 per cent"

There seems to be a mistake in the article. The latest Kantar numbers for March says US Windows Phone share is 5.6%, up from 3.7% a year ago.

Windows Phone is growing nearly everywhere, and now has a 6.5% market share in Europe (EU5), which is 1/3 of Apple's share (19% and dropping). It is not inconceivable that Windows share could pass iPhone share by next year in Europe - will Eadon's head assplode?

Re: smoke and mirror

Buy your own pencil is all over USA. Do a quick search on IBM union and you'll find all those stories.

Additionally, employees in services (GBS, GTS) are required to record billable hours greater than 2000. Do the math (and factor in travel time, vacation, sick days, holidays) and quickly it is apparent that the management is asking employees to lie in their time sheets and over charge the clients.

smoke and mirror

She is inept. Period.

First San, and now Ginni are screwing up the company. EPS increase is not due to operational efficiency. It is due to aggressive stock buy back and very very aggressive cost cutting. The cost cutting include not approving business essential items such as pencils (!) and monitor for programmer to do the work. Employees has to buy stationary etc. using own money.

Lot of good people are leaving the company, only dead-wood that nobody would want runs the company.

Re: Hybrids excluded? So MS's share is even higher?

ATOM tablets dont have fans, prices are about the same as for other 10 inch tablets and are set to come down, and did you expect Metro tablets (with all those issues you mentioned) to sell at 20% of iPad sales already?

Hybrids excluded? So MS's share is even higher?

So these numbers exclude the Lenovo Yoga and the Samsung ATIV SmartPC and that HP they are advertising on TV? So maybe another 1 million could be added to that 3 million total? Also I saw recently that 20% of laptops sold in Q2 2013 had touch screens - Even with a falling market thats got to be about 5-6 million laptops.

I expect by Christmas 2013 both Apple and Android numbers are going to look "niche".

Its always funny money

When has IBM ever released a PR talking up an investment that has not been upwards of a billion dollars. It's all bulls#!t. Agreed that they make decent products that are very well tested (same as HP, Oracle/Sun), but throwing out these BS billion dollar PRs is deceiving. It usually funny money transactions in a company that doesn't mean $#it.

IBM: please talk up the innovation and not the investment. Your transactions are like DOD budgets -- much higher than they should be like that $2,000 anti- static mat.

Re: Shakes head

Re: Well done all round

Well done? It seems to me that they haven't done what they are preaching. When will people understand that the applications these 'security companies' try to sell are no more secure than any other application out there.

Re: Hang on a minute!

No, they don't.

" We all know and love Apple's iconic iPad. It's been shipping in the millions, an oft-wished-for gift on many a Christmas list -- and none of them come with a user manual. Apple claims the iPad is so easy to use that a manual isn't necessary. But while some features are easy to master, more advanced features sometimes makes many an iPad owner wish a manual existed for them to thumb through.

"I was surprised and disappointed that there was no instruction manual with my iPad," says iPad Pete, creator of the iPad tutorial videos. "I thought it was a mistake and the Apple factory forgot to pack my instruction book. But no -- they just don't come with any instructions. At all!"

Apple’s whole model is "ease of use." They claim you don’t even need a manual. Using an iPad's simple features such as checking email easy enough. But many users are finding it tough to get their existing music collection onto the iPad and have many basic questions about its use when first starting out, as evidenced by these posts on the Apple forums."

How about they give the authority to whoever is investigating these kind of crimes to be able to pull a gun on the suspect's head to force a confession. It would be much more effective than mere empty life in prison threats.